Why this word is great
MARINISM — [Noun] An ornate, witty style of poetry and verse drama written in imitation of Giambattista Marino (1569–1625). From the name Giambattista Marini (Italian poet) + the suffix -ism (denoting a distinctive style or system). Unlike "Gongorism" (which names the Spanish baroque excesses of Góngora) or "Euphuism" (which describes Lyly's English prose artifice), Marinism is a specifically Italian extravagance—a cascade of conceits, a fireworks display of metaphor, a deliberate surrender to the voluptuous. It is the gilded excess of a Medici banquet, the labyrinthine curl of a Baroque façade, the slow burn of a candle devouring its own wax—a style that knows it is too much, and glories in the knowing, as if language itself were a feast too rich to digest.